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acroyearA couple of days ago, we passed the 20-year anniversary of the Secret Service raid on our office. We didn't send out a press release, hold a candlelight ceremony, or even put a giant copy of GURPS Cyberpunk on our roof (okay, that one would have been pretty cool). Instead, we worked on Munchkin projects and tested the alpha version of a Zombie Dice app for the iPhone.
In other words: We just made games. And this is a good thing. The point of the lawsuit against the Secret Service was to defend our civil liberties. Liberty means the freedom to go about your business in peace, and once the lawsuit was over and the computer-snatchers put, for the moment, to flight . . . we went about our business, which is making games. And we're still at it.
But we might not be making games today if it weren't for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The founders of the EFF took on the very serious business of defending us - all of us - against perhaps the worst menace a democracy can face: its own police, laws, and courts gone astray. The balance between freedom and security never stands still, and new technology changes the details but mustn't be allowed to change the principles. That's why the EFF was created, and that's why it's still around, 20 years later. And I'm very grateful.
Steve Jackson Games Daily Illuminator - March 3, 2010
In other words: We just made games. And this is a good thing. The point of the lawsuit against the Secret Service was to defend our civil liberties. Liberty means the freedom to go about your business in peace, and once the lawsuit was over and the computer-snatchers put, for the moment, to flight . . . we went about our business, which is making games. And we're still at it.
But we might not be making games today if it weren't for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The founders of the EFF took on the very serious business of defending us - all of us - against perhaps the worst menace a democracy can face: its own police, laws, and courts gone astray. The balance between freedom and security never stands still, and new technology changes the details but mustn't be allowed to change the principles. That's why the EFF was created, and that's why it's still around, 20 years later. And I'm very grateful.
Steve Jackson Games Daily Illuminator - March 3, 2010
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Date: 2010-03-03 02:10 pm (UTC)(That and the fact that I had submitted artwork in y'all's possession at the time which, to my understanding, was amongst the stuff seized.)
Flinging a couple of dollars in the EFF's direction this day.
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Date: 2010-03-03 03:41 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-03-03 03:57 pm (UTC)Lemme put it this way: I never got into GURPS, as I still was into my The Fantasy Trip set at the time. I have first-printings (not "new" state, of course) of OGRE, Melee, and Wizard. Somewhere in his collection, my dad has Chitin-1.